| Chances are your craft room or child's play area has | | | | project with this watercolor-crackled look!4. |
| a handful of colorful markers. Since markers are | | | | Embossing Powder Power! Gently dust a piece of |
| available in so many different colors and often come | | | | vellum with corn starch. Using embossing ink, stamp |
| packaged in coordinating shades, markers are the | | | | the vellum and cover with your choice of embossing |
| perfect mediums to stretch your color options | | | | powder. Using a heat tool, melt the embossing |
| without breaking the bank. Using markers with rubber | | | | powder. Take a handful of similar colored markers |
| stamps is a perfect way to make classy paper craft | | | | and draw various sized triangles in a random pattern |
| projects and bright vibrant scrapbooking pages. Here | | | | on the reverse side of the stamped vellum. Color in |
| are five great tips for getting the most from your | | | | the triangles with the markers in a random color |
| markers and rubber stamps and making marker | | | | pattern. Gently spray the surface with a light water |
| magic.1. Mark up those ink jet transparencies! Using | | | | mist and allow to dry. Using spray-on adhesive, lightly |
| any ink jet transparency, ink the rubber stamp for | | | | set the ink on the reverse side and cut out around |
| your project with the desired marker color and | | | | the embossed image. Attach to your next project |
| stamp the print side of the transparency. The glue on | | | | for an amazing stained glass raised vellum |
| the ink jet transparency will bond the marker ink to | | | | embellishment!5. Shade These Threads! Markers are |
| the transparency film and will dry in a short period of | | | | the perfect mediums for coloring in the non inked |
| time. You can then cut around the stamped image | | | | areas of a stamped fabric image. Simply start by |
| and mount on your project!2. Color Metal! Using any | | | | stamping the fabric with the desired color dye-based |
| silver brads, paper clips, or any other silver metal | | | | ink pad. Allow to dry. Using markers, color in all |
| embellishments, color the metal with the marker of | | | | remaining areas accordingly. To soften the marker |
| choice. If you are using water-based markers, bond | | | | lines, gently spray the fabric with water. You can dry |
| the ink to the metal with a light mist of hair spray or | | | | the fabric with a hair dryer or allow to dry in the air. |
| acrylic spray-on glue and allow to dry. This technique | | | | Cut out your fabric and place on the desired |
| will allow you to make many different custom | | | | project!Using these simple marker techniques is a |
| colored metal embellishments coordinated with your | | | | fantastic way to gather a large variety of colors and |
| current project.3. Cellophane Crackle Color! Take a | | | | inexpensively fill in the color wheel areas for which |
| piece of clear cellophane and lay it on a flat surface. | | | | you have no stamp pads. Markers are a wonderful |
| Tape the edges to hold the cellophane in one place. | | | | solution for vibrant colors on a wide variety of |
| Using a watermark stamp pad, stamp the surface of | | | | surfaces. Go ahead, try those markers and stamps |
| the cellophane the desired size according to the | | | | out today!Kathy Williams loves rubber stamps |
| stamp you will be using. Using your markers, color the | | | | and scrapbooking. When she is not working on her |
| stamped cellophane, blending the colors with q-tips, | | | | online rubber stamping store,Rubber Stamping Fun, |
| brushes, or light mists of water. Taking your rubber | | | | she enjoys writing stamping and scrapbooking articles |
| stamp, cover the surface by gently tapping the | | | | and working with all of her rubber stamp projects! |
| stamp to the cellophane. Proceed to stamp your | | | | |